Cornell ED?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi, guys, I'm a white junior in Connecticut who would really like to go to Cornell. What are my chances?</p>

<p>8th grade summer Courses/Grades
JHU CTY Honors Geometry:A
JHU CTY Honors Precalculus: B</p>

<p>9th grade Courses/Grades
AP Calculus BC: B
Chemistry Accelerated: B
Physics Accelerated: B
English I: A
European History I: A
Spanish III: A</p>

<p>10th grade Courses/Grades
Multivariant Calculus and Linear Algebra: A
AP Chemistry: B
Biology Accelerated:B
Spanish IV: A
English II: A
US History I: A</p>

<p>10th grade summer Courses/Grades
Computer Programming I: A</p>

<p>11th grade Courses/Grades
AP Computer Science: A
AP Biology: B
AP Spanish: A
AP Language: A
AP European History:A
Art History I: A</p>

<p>11th grade summer:
Research under professor at Cornell
Will take SPA 224 Hispanic Studies at Princeton University senior year (actual Pton course, our school lets us do that)</p>

<p>Predicted UW GPA for 9-11: 3.64
Predicted W GPA for 9-11: 4.38</p>

<p>SAT scores:
SAT II Math Level I and Level II: dual 800's in middle school (meaningless, I know, but IDK what else to say about that)
SAT II Physics: 790
SAT II Spanish: 800
SAT I: 2320</p>

<p>AP scores
AP Calculus BC: 5
AP Chemistry: 5
AP Statistics: 5 (self-studied)
AP Spanish:4 (predicted, please just assume so)
AP European History: 5 (see above)
AP Biology: 5 (see above)
AP Comp Sci: 5 (see above)
AP Language: 5 (see above)</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
Science Olympiad: multiple medals at various invitational tournaments, multiple gold medals at states, silver medal at nationals 10th grade
Science Bowl: 3rd place at regionals 11th
Quiz bowl: 2nd place at regionals 10th and 11th
University research
Approximately 200 volunteer hours in a hospital
National AP Scholar (?)
223 PSAT, possible NMSF
Chess player (rating 1400ish)
Secretary of Biology Club sophomore year
Participated in some other science competitons, but did not do significantly well
Will take legitimate Princeton course
My college list:
Cornell ED
Vanderbilt
Brown
Rice
WUSTL
Dartmouth
Georgetown
GWU
Williams
UPenn
Princeton
Columbia
University of Connecticut
JHU
UNC Chapel Hill
UMich Ann Arbor
Berkeley (Too expensive, still applying)
UCLA
Northwestern
UChicago
Duke</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>!!!</p>

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<p>Your issues are low UW GPA and weak ECs. Cornell is worth a shot ED, the other ivies I’m not seeing.</p>

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<p>Is there anything I could do to improve my EC’s in the little time I have? Thankee.</p>

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<p>Bump 10 char</p>

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<p>Bump. Bump. Bump. :d</p>

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<p>I would actually say you have a great chance. Depends on what you’re applying to though, of couse. But for CAS ED I would say you have a very solid chance if you just raise your gpa a bit and perhaps branch out a bit more with ECs like the previos poster said. I got into CAS this year but I had a 4.0 Gpa and pretty well-rounded ECs. You don’t have to win everything, just make your EC’s and yourself interesting</p>

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<p>Bumppppppp</p>

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<p>Booom!!!</p>

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<p>D: C’mon people help a fool out.</p>

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<p>like they said, your grades and EC’s arent that great, but I was just touring cornell last week and every single admissions dean and professor i talked to stressed the essays as being the most important factor besides grades. if your school has a history of sending kids to cornell and youre ranked high in class you probably have a decent shot. if your essays dont stand out then you probably dont have much chance since your SAT’s are the only really good part of your profile</p>

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<p>Hmmm. I think I misrepresented my EC’s. I’ll make a new post that makes them sound a little better.</p>